_Gospel Place_ (Vol. vii., p. 133.).--In my parish there are two such places, both on the border of the parish: one is called "The Gospel Oak," the other "The Gospel Bush." The traditional explanation of these names is this:--that at no very ancient date, when the custom of perambulating the parish was annually observed, portions of the Gospel were read at these and other places,--_stations_, as they were anciently called. JOHN JEBB. Peterstow Rectory, Ross. _Passage in Thomson_ (Vol. vii., p. 87.).--_Steaming_, as your intelligent correspondent C. says, is clearly the true reading. The word is so printed in the 4to. edition of the _Seasons_, 1730 (was not this the first collected edition of that poem?), and in every other to which I have referred. It does not, however, occur in the 4to. copy in the twenty-eighth, but in the thirty-first line. The four lines, fifteenth to eighteenth, originally given in the "Hymn," but afterwards wisely omitted by the poet, follow the words "In Autumn unconfined:"-- "Thrown from thy lap Profuse o'er Nature falls the lucid shower Of beamy fruits, and in a radiant stream Into the stores of sterile winter pours." The _steaming_ property of the earth is well described by Dr. Carpenter, in his _Vegetable Physiology_, p. 168.: "If a glass vessel be placed with its mouth downwards, on the surface of a meadow or grass plot, during a sunny afternoon in summer, it will speedily be rendered dim in the interior by the watery vapour which will rise into it; and this will soon accumulate to such a degree as to run down in drops. Any person walking in a meadow on which the sun is shining powerfully, where the grass has not long previously been refreshed by rain, may observe a tremulous motion in distant objects, occasioned by the rising of the watery vapour; exactly resembling that which takes place along the sea-shore, when the sun shines strongly on pebbles that have been left in a moistened state by the retiring tide."--Dr. Carpenter's _Vegetable Physiology_, p. 168. sect. 253. "The atmosphere is made up of several steams, or minute particles of several sorts rising from the earth and the waters."--Locke's _Elements of Natural Philosophy_. J. H. M. "_Words are given to man to conceal his thoughts_" (Vol. vii., p. 165.).--The hexameter line, [Greek: hos ch' heteron], &c., is one put by Homer into the mouth of Achilles (_Iliad_, ix. 313.), when he is expressing his indignant hatred of liars. RT. Warmington. _Folger Family_ (Vol. vi., p. 583.; Vol. vii., p. 51.).--Will it assist the inquiry to say that there was a family of Foulgers at Norwich? The only son was a curate at Leiston, in Suffolk, in 1832. B. B. WOODWARD. * * * * * Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.